Choose one of the questions below and answer in a page on the class blog.
1. How does she determine what is newsworthy?2. How does she rely on social media? The article she quoted says that watching the debates without social media is unthinkable, that you might as well not watch it. Do you agree?3. How does she write differently with different technology or in different media?
Leslie Hutchinson stressed the importance of social media in reporting nowadays. Because technology plays such a major role in finding news, it is necessary that it is reported at a constant basis in order to keep up with this high demand for information. She explains that social media such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. is one way to make this happen. For example, she went into detail about how before social media she would have to listen to a radio constantly for news updates. Now, she can just follow news sources on google searches or via Twitter and receive information just as fast if it were from radio. All of her news required to produce The Cheshire Patch can all be found in one place all at the same time. Receiving news from social media is also a positive because she does not have to sit down next to a radio all day to report. She said that she can be anywhere to do her job (she was even doing her job right here at CA when she was reporting a news story about our discussion!). Whether she is working on her iPhone, iPad, or computer, social media gives her the news she needs and the tools to report it. These benefits that have risen with the new wave of technology is particularly important to her because she works at an online newspaper. With over 2,000 subscribers on a fast moving internet, utilizing social media is key to the success of The Cheshire Patch.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Leslie Hutchinson’s stress on the importance of social media in presidential debates, I think that technology has changed the way people understand politics and form opinions about candidates. I do agree with her that social media in debates allows for the rapid spread of these ideas and the follow up of opinions by regular people. This constant flow of ideas has shaped modern elections because political news is always readily available, thus allowing for the average person to form opinions pertaining to important things such as political debates.
How does she rely on social media? The article she quoted says that watching the debates without social media is unthinkable, that you might as well not watch it. Do you agree?
ReplyDeleteMrs. Hutchison said herself that without social media he wouldn't be as successful as she is. She told us that all of her breaking news, top of the line stories came from one site. Twitter. She found that people always post about important topics. And she simply borrows those topics and creates a news article on it.
I think that it would be difficult watching a debate without social media. I think that watching the debate would be so difficult because a lot of what is being said is very meticulous and advanced. And these social media sources "dumb it down" so to speak. But they also bring up very important points about the debates that many wouldn't have even thought of.
How does she rely on social media? The article she quoted says that watching the debates without social media is unthinkable, that you might as well not watch it. Do you agree?
ReplyDeleteI think the editor of Cheshire Patch, Leslie Hutchinson, relies on social media a lot when she writes her news articles. She spoke of how she follows news companies on Twitter, so that she can get instant news to write about. She also said how the first Presidential Debate last night was the most tweeted about show in history, with 10 million tweets in the 90 minutes. This must make her job very interesting because she would read many of these tweets to get different ideas on the people's reaction to the two candidates and their policies. Also, Facebook pages were made immediately after the debate, and within a matter of hours they had thousands
of likes. This just goes to show how useful mass communication tools like social media can be in the modern world. Even if you could not watch the debate yourself, you would still get a good idea of what was said just by reading a twitter feed on your smart phone or computer. In terms of not watching the debate without social media, I think I disagree. Twitter is very useful in sharing ideas about things like debates, but only as a complementary form of media. I said above that you could get the gist of the debate from reading a twitter feed, but it is nothing like actually seeing the debate for yourself on TV.
I was impressed whe she said that the amount of people who read her articles are in the thousands, especially how Cheshire has a population of only about 28000, and how Cheshire Patch has been been in operation for two years.
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ReplyDeleteToday we met with Leslie Hutchinson the editor of Cheshire Patch. I was amazed by what she knew about technology and her website. She really related everything to mass communication through Twitter. What really surprised me were the numbers that she gave. How last year Obama used twitter but there were no real posts on twitter but this year during the debate there were millions within the first 90 minutes. Another thing that really surprised me was her objectivity of opinion pieces. She said flat out that if there was a adjective before a noun then it was an opinion piece no matter what. I also learned about the CMS or Content management system, which I thought was super cool as well as the SEO, which I guess is like putting something into your title so it will come up in a Google search. All in all I really liked the meeting and learned a ton of new things, It was very interesting to learn about the journaling world.
ReplyDeleteMs. Hutchison chooses her news by trying to figure out what people would deem most relevant to their lives. She tries to also do human interest pieces that are accurate by talking to mid-management level boss people. She said she always tried to have equal reporting on both sides of the story especially if it is a political story.
ReplyDeleteHow does Leslie determine what is newsworthy?
ReplyDeleteShe has a boss that sort of gives her some regulations or advices on what to put on cheshire patch. However she still has her own way to determine what is newsworthy. Almost all of the news she put on the website is editorial. Just like New york time, she puts keywords in the headline so that people will find it easily by the search engine. So, firstly, she puts whatever is hot topic such as the elections and debates on the website. Secondly, depends on the local situation she will choose something that will interest the local community to put on the website. Such as, news in Cheshire Academy, or the election of governor of Connecticut.
3. How does she write differently with different technology or in different media?
ReplyDeleteHer writing becomes different in those 30 years of working journalism. The popularity of computer made her work more easier, because she did not need to retype the whole paragraph if she typed one single word wrong. Computer made her writing more effective and much easier to be edited. WiFi changed the way she writes too. As the popularity of WiFi, she could get access to the internet any times she wants. It makes her work much easier, for she could access to the stories quickly, and receives the comments instantly.
Twitter and Facebook are useful as well. By using Twitter, she could get instance news. The maximum numbers that could be typed in Facebook and Twitter makes the news more effective. According to her discovery those numbers are the most effective numbers to tell an event clearly, and more words could make some of the information unimportant and partial of them are lying, as well. She found out that Saturday is the best day to post influential news, and everyday at noon the largest numbers of people are using social media than the rest of the day. So posting time is important as well.
Writing on the website is different from writing printed medias, she need to chose the title of the carefully, and she need to write the most attractive key words in the title. Therefore more people would have interests to read it, and searching engine could provide to the readers in the first few pages.
In the talk, Ms. Hutchison mentions that the in the journalism, the opinion of the writer won’t be given to the audiences directly. Instead, the adjectives or words that are describing the noun may be the best way to infer the writer’s potential biases. When she is analyzing the news on the Internet, she says that many online newspapers will make minor corrections after the news is published next day. However, most people will not realize it because the mistake is so minor and the change is small, like the spelling mistakes and some unimportant data. If one people save both the document form two consecutive days, and go over every word meticulously, they might be able to find it. However, Ms. Hutchison thinks it is not a good idea to make a mistake at the beginning and then start over. Besides, she says that she likes following twitters, facebooks and blogs, because she likes to see how fast things changed. She claims that she likes these websites, as they can help people to publish ideas and suggestions quickly.
ReplyDeleteFrom her talk, I come to know the importance of the online blogs and websites. As I seldom spend time on blogs and facebooks, I might not be able to know some things that my classmates are talking about. As what she said in the talk, twitters can show how things changed. Additionally, I can also infer what the writer’s main idea is by looking at the adjectives, as sometimes I can only guess the potential bias of the writer after reading the whole article.
1. Worthy to be published is only what happened currently. There is no sense of writing about something in the News which is not new. Besides, article should be relevant for the readers, in local providers they should have local news, but also international news if they are important to know for everyone.
ReplyDelete2. I totally agree with her statement that it is not possible to follow the presidential debates without social media. With social media, you can not only watch it although you don't have cable TV, but on most pages people can directly react to what the candidates said. You can share your opinion with others and people could maybe make each other change their mind.
3. The main reason she said is, that online post compared to newspaper articles are always up to date. Well not just up to date, but more up to minute. The reader might not realize this, but online articles in the web get changed. One single person can just post something without having the article checked. In newspapers, the texts get checked by a few other people before it gets published. This is how they make sure that there are no mistakes in writing, expression or facts. When the publisher recognizes errors in a web article, he can just change and update, the readership usually does not realize.